Margy Rochlin

In Japanese, tamago means eggs and onsen are hot springs. In the tourist town of Beppu - Japan's bubbling geothermal version of Yellowstone Park - onsen tamago is often prepared by sticking eggs in steaming mineral pools and letting them cook so slowly that after the shell is removed, a......

In July, The Wall Street Journal published a lengthy piece on the publishing industry's quest for the next international thriller sensation à la Stieg Larsson, and among the authors cited was one of Turkey's best-selling writers of detective novels, Mehmet Murat Somer. The unnamed narrator of Somer's stealthily political Hop-Çiki-Yaya......

With Lisbeth Salander, the tiny, pierced, tattooed protagonist of the hugely popular Millennium Trilogy, Swedish crime fiction writer Stieg Larrson created a modern day feminist action hero. When cornered, she takes down hulking foes with an arsenal of weapons that include computer hacking skills, a high voltage Taser gun and......

For all the marquee prominence in the title of Chinese director Zhang Yimou's A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop, (slated for release on Sept. 3rd) we only see a kitchen staff shift into high gear once. In the scene, Wang -- the villainous owner of a restaurant located......

In anticipation of the summer equinox -- June 21st -- Lou Amdur, owner of LOU: A Wine Bar, returns to Squid Ink with some thoughts on rosés, why a dialed-down acidity profile is good and a few do's and don'ts for backyard grilling season. Squid Ink: Summer is almost officially......

The fried chicken at Price's Chicken Coop -- often called the best in America - has golden, crunchy skin and meat so mind-bendingly moist that I suspect brining is involved. The 40-year-old Charlotte, NC-based restaurant also has a mysterious handwritten sign on its wall: "WE WILL NO LONGER REFUND OR......